Lace curtain



Oct. 9, 1934. w LD 1,976,685

LACE CURTA IN Filed April 11, 1935 J mes Waferfield' 3 LAN.

Patented Oct. 9, I934 UNITED STATES mum? OFFICE This invention relates to improvements in lace curtains wherein the fabric forming the curtains is embellished by figures or designs formed in the curtain fabric on or in a groundwork of open net or mesh of less density than the portions of the fabric which form the figures or designs, so that the groundwork will provide visibility through the mesh thereof while the figures or designs either wholly or in part destroy either all or part of such visibility in the areas covered thereby.

The object of the invention is to provide a curtain of novel construction in which portions of the figures or designs on certain portions of the fabric may be so related to the figures or designs on other portions thereof as to be visible through portions of the open mesh of the groundwork and thereby present shadowy and shimmering effects in parts of the complete design for the enhancement of the beauty, attractiveness and richness of the curtain.

With the foregoing object in View, the invention consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing, illustrating the invention,

Figure 1 is a front view of a curtain illustrating my invention.

Figure 2 is a view, on a larger scale, of the portion of the curtain embraced by the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Figure 3 is a section through a portion of the curtain, on line 33 of Fig. 2.

Figure 4 is a view of the lace fabric forming the portion of the curtain shown in Fig. 2 before the same has been folded to form the hem;

Referring to the drawing, 2 designates the body of the curtain which may be formed of a suitable length of lace fabric, such, for example, as Nottingham lace.

One side portion of the curtain fabric is folded against the main body of the fabric and secured thereto by a line of stitching 4 to form a border hem 5 having two adjacent thicknesses 9 and 11 of the fabric, and the bottom portion of the curtain fabric is folded against the main body of the fabric and secured thereto by a line of stitching 6 to form a bottom hem 7 similar to the hem 5.

The main body or groundwork portion 8 of the curtain fabric is formed of net or open mesh lace.

The forward thickness 9 of the fabric of the .5551: hem 5 is embellished with .design figures 10,

and the rearward thickness 11 of the fabric also is embellished with design figures 12.

The portions of the fabric which form the design figures 10 and 12 are of greater density than that of the groundwork 8 of the fabric on ,9, which they are located or in which they are formed.

The design figures 12 of the fabric thickness 11 of the hem 5 are out of registry with the design figures 10 of the fabric thickness 9 of G5;

the hem, and they are visible through the open mesh of the groundwork 8 of the fabric thickness 9, and they are so arranged and related to the design figures 12 that the two sets of figures 10 and 12, combinedly, produce a com- 9; plete and artistic design, the beauty and a"- tractiveness of which is greatly enhanced by the shadowy and shimmering effects produced upon the parts of the design formed by the figures 12 by the open mesh of the fabric of the 7,5. thickness 9 thereof through which they are visible. These novel effects are changed and varied by each change of the position from which they are viewed, and they are further changed and rendered irregular by some variation in the 9 spaces between the two fabric thicknesses 9 and 11 of the hem at different places throughout the same.

The reverse of these novel effects is produced when the curtain is viewed from the face thereof .5 opposite to the face shown in Figs. 1 and 2; that is to say, the design figures 10 are then visible through the open mesh 8 of the groundwork of the fabric thickness 11.

The adjacent thicknesses of the fabric forming the bottom hem 7 are provided with design figures similar to those of the hem 5, so that substantially the same effects will be produced in the hem '7 as are produced in the hem 5. The design figures 10 and 12 may be changed greatly to produce designs of any desired configuration, the essential feature of the invention being that the figures or parts of the, design carried by one thickness of the fabric shall be out of registry, either wholly or in part, with the figures or parts of the design carried by the adjacent thickness of the fabric, so that parts of the figures on one thickness shall be visible through the open mesh groundwork of the other thickness.

The groundwork of the main body of the curtain, outside of the hems 5 and. 7, may, of

course, be embellished by any suitable design I claim: 1. As a new article of manufacture, a curtain formed of lace fabric having a border portion thereof folded against the main body of the fabric and stitched theretovforming a hem having two adjacent thicknesses of the fabric, each of said thicknessesybeing embellished by design figures formed in the fabric thereof on a: groundwork of the fabric of open mesh of less density than the portions of the fabric which form the design figures, the design figures on one of said;

thicknesses being out of registry with the,

figures on the other of said thicknesses and" being visible through the 'onen...mesh. oi groundwork thereof, and the design figuresof.

the two thicknesses combinedly forming a m: plete design.

2. As a new article of manufacture, aeurta in figures on one of said thicknesses being out of registry with the design figures on the other of said thicknesses and being visible through the open mesh of thegroundwork thereof; and the figures of. the' two thicknesses combinedly forming a complete design having repeat porwtions, running parallel with the hem.

JAMES WATERFIELD. 

